8th Grade Spring Google Apps

If you are looking for a rigorous yet engaging skills-based lesson that will really put a SPRING in your step, look no further than this Spring-Themed DIGITAL ESCAPE ROOM for use with Google Drive!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! This meticulously-crafted resource features all of the materials you need to conduct a full-length Spring-Themed Language Arts Escape Room. Planning an escape room may seem like quite the daunting task, but this product provides everything from the basics and set-up instructions to signs and answer keys so that yours runs smoothly from start to finish. The activity involves movement, energy, creative thinking and most of all, collaboration. All tasks are Language Arts skills-based so that with this engaging lesson, learning is not sacrificed. Your students will be having so much fun that they won’t even realize the higher order thinking skills they are applying in the playing of this game!

How does it work?

Your students are trapped in your digital classroom and cannot leave for spring break until they solve 5 Language Arts skills-based tasks about spring!

• Spring to Life: In the first task, students must fill in the blanks with the spring-inspired idioms.
• Figurative as a Flower: In the second task, students identify the figurative language devices used in excerpts from beautiful spring poems (like After the Winter by Claude McKay).
• Edna's Spring: In the third task, students must perform a close reading of Spring by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the perfect poem to study as the days get warmer, and answer multiple choice questions about the poem.
• Spring Fever: In the fourth task, students will read 8 quotes about spring and identify the part of speech of underlined words within each quote.
• Jig Saw Quote: In the final task, students must solve a jig saw puzzle that reveals a provocative quote about spring. Once they figure out the quote and share the file with you, they may escape to spring break!

Product Includes:

- Instructions for how to access and share escape room and answer key through Google Drive

- Materials for 5 Tasks: digital task signs, detailed task instructions, and supplementary materials

- Digital Student Worksheets

- Digital Teacher Answer Key

This product requires free accounts through Google Drive and is completely paperless.

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Can't get enough escape rooms? Check out more themed escapes by Language Arts Excellence here:

⭐ End of Year ELA ESCAPE ROOM

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⭐ Thanksgiving ESCAPE ROOM

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⭐ New Year's ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Valentine's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ St. Patrick's Day ESCAPE ROOM

⭐ Back to School ELA ESCAPE ROOM

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Let your students have fun while reviewing 8th grade math concepts with these engaging no-prep, and self-checking activities. Students will solve 80 problems using Google Sheets. I used it as a sub-plan in eighth grade and the kids loved it. As they correctly answer the questions a mystery picture will be revealed.

It covers:

• Finding slope from two points
• Solving linear equations
• Pythagorean theorem
• Volume of rectangular prisms

Do you want to give your secondary ESL newcomer students an engaging resource to get them writing, reading, presenting and researching this spring_?_ This ESL ELD Spring Newcomer slide deck is everything you need to teach your secondary Newcomers (Entering and Emerging levels) about spring clothes, weather, food, holidays and traditions in a FUN and engaging way! 

You can teach these slides over a few days OR use them as daily activities over a few weeks.

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Analyze text
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Complete research
• Have the opportunity to expand grammar skills.

This unit is PACKED with activities to engage your ESL students. You will have everything you need to have an AMAZING unit.

What’s Included:

• 92 Interactive Google Slides/Pear Deck for spring weather, clothes, traditions, holidays and food
• Organized, professional slides with engaging graphics and images
• Six engaging videos to practice listening
• Focus on the Past Simple Tense
• Virtual field trip to the Arlington Cemetery
• Spring holiday "Snapshots" to teach all the spring holidays (Holi, Ramadan, Easter, Memorial Day & Cinco de Mayo)
• 15 slides for writing practice with language supports for Newcomers
• Vocabulary supports throughout
• Two formative writing assessment slides
• Bonus Activity: Spring holiday Google Doc Note Catcher
• Bonus Activity: PDF Past Simple Tense Practice
• Bonus Activity: PDF Past Simple Irregular Verbs
• Bonus Activity: Student Project---My Summer Dream Board---complete with templated student presentation Google Slides
• Tons of interactive slides to drag, draw, etc.
• Engaging visuals for secondary Newcomers!!
• And more!!!

Look what other educators are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cait B. wrote, “My students loved this resource! Thanks so much for creating this resource!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rosa G. wrote, “My 9th and 10th grade Newcomers LOVED these slides! They were so creative and well done and looked so professional plus had tons of writing support. The videos were fantastic and I loved all the holidays that were included, especially about Ramadan and Holi. The student project was SO FUN and students were able to do it independently other than quick conferences to check in. Presenting their Summer Boards was a blast!”

This unit will bring some fun and engagement to your classroom! You don’t want to miss out on the INFORMATIVE project. Make sure to add this resource to your cart.

Check out these resources:

Newcomer Personal Narrative Writing

Newcomer Professional Development

If you are looking for the perfect way to end the school year and send your students off to summer vacation on a high note, look no further than this End of Year ELA Digital Escape Room for use with Google Drive!

There is no wonder why escape rooms are so popular; they are highly engaging and encourage people to work together and think creatively in order to solve different puzzles... all while trying to beat the clock! Now, you can facilitate our popular End of Year ELA Escape Room at home for distance learning or in the classroom using your school's technology (thereby cutting down on paper and valuable prep time) with this meticulously-crafted resource. Each task is skills-based so that with this fun activity, learning is not sacrificed. Distance learning can certainly be a struggle for both students and teachers, so this escape room aims to provide a welcome break from the monotony while encouraging higher order thinking skills and a fun review of ELA material.

How does it work?

Your students must escape your digital classroom by solving 5 different Language Arts skills-based puzzles, discovering a hidden message, and finding clues along the way.

• Literary Crossword: In the first task, students must complete a crossword puzzle with questions about literary devices. Once complete, they must unscramble shaded boxes to reveal the first code.
• Words of Wisdom: In the second task, students must identify parts of speech in different funny and inspirational quotes from famous figures. When matched correctly, shaded boxes reveal the second code.
• Figuratively Speaking: In the third task, students must identify the figurative language device used in pop songs by current artists like The Chainsmokers, Coldplay, and Ed Sheeran. Shaded letters in the correct answers form the third code.
• A Dream Deferred: In the fourth task, students must perform a close reading of Langston Hughes' "A Dream Deferred." This is perfect for the end of the school year as students reflect upon their dreams for the future. The letters of the multiple choice questions about the poem will form the fourth code.
• Jig Saw Quote: In the fifth and final task, students must assemble a jig saw puzzle with a famous and inspirational quote. (We can't give that away here!)

Product Includes:

- Instructions for how to access and share escape room and answer key through Google Drive

- Digital Student Workbook

- Digital Teacher Answer Keys

This product requires free accounts through Google Drive and is completely paperless.

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⭐⭐⭐For the escape room enthusiasts out there, you can now build your own bundle at 20% off the cover price of 3 or more escape rooms! Click the link to check out all of the escape rooms Language Arts Excellence has to offer: Build Your Own Escape Room BUNDLE⭐⭐⭐

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This Bundle includes two versions:

• 20 one step equations no negatives
• 20 one step equations with negatives answers

Let your students practice while having fun with this engaging no-prep, Easter themed, and self-checking one-step equations activity. Students will solve 20 one-step equations with rational coefficients using Google Sheets. I used it as a sub-plan in eighth grade and the kids loved it. As they correctly answer the questions a mystery picture will be revealed.

Solutions are included for your convenience.

Suitable for IB MYP Middle Years Programme.

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This Bundle includes two google sheets:

• 20 adding and subtracting fractions
• 20 multiplying and dividing fractions

Let your students practice while having fun with this engaging no-prep, Spring themed, and self-checking operations with fractions activity. Students will solve 20 operations using Google Sheets. I used it as a sub-plan in sixth grade and the kids loved it. As they correctly answer the questions a mystery picture will be revealed.

Solutions are included for your convenience.

Suitable for IB MYP Middle Years Programme.

Copyright © 2021 Matemaths

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Not for public display.

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This bundle includes everything you need to teach order of operations to your kids:

Whenever I create a resource that fits, it will be added to the bundle.

Copyright © 2023 Matemaths

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Permission to copy for single classroom use only.

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